Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173617 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/17/011
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Purpose- We respond to some challenges in the transition to Sustainable Development Goals by examining the correlations between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year 2011. Design/methodology/approach- Mobile money service entails: ‘mobile used to pay bills’ and ‘mobile used to receive/send money’. Interactive Ordinary Least Squares are employed. Findings- The following findings are established. First, increasing use of the mobile phones to pay bills: is positively linked to ‘quality of growth’ in lower-middle income countries (LMIC) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality/value- Macroeconomic data on mobile money service is scarce. No study to the best of our knowledge has used this macroeconomic mobile money service data before.
Subjects: 
Mobile money services
Quality of growth
poverty
inequality
JEL: 
G20
O40
I10
I20
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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